To weave with threads of silver or gold, as in the manufacture of tissue.
To clothe in or adorn with tissue.
Figuratively, to weave; construct; elaborate.
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A woven or textile fabric; specifically, in former times, a fine stuff, richly colored or ornamented, and often shot with gold or silver threads, a variety of cloth of gold; now, any light gauzy texture, such as is used for veils, or, more indefinitely, any woven fabric of fine quality: a generic word, the specific sense of which in any use is determinable only by its connection or qualification.
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A ribbon, or a woven ligament of some kind.
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In biology, an aggregate of similar cells and cell-products in a definite fabric; a histological texture of any metazoic animal: as, muscular, nervous, cellular, fibrous, connective, or epithelial tissue; parenchymatous tissue.
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Specifically, in botany, the cellular fabric out of which plant-structures are built up, being composed of united cells that have had a common origin and have obeyed a common law of growth.
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Figuratively, an interwoven or interconnected series or sequence; an intimate conjunction, coördination, or concatenation.
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Same as tissue-paper. See paper.
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In photography, a film or very thin plate of gelatin compounded with a pigment, made on a continuous strip of paper, and used, after bichromate sensitization, for carbon-printing.
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In entomology, the geometrid moth Scotosia dubitata : an English collectors' name.
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In zoology, areolar tissue. See def. 3.
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In zoology, areolar tissue.
Made of tissue.